#BlogTour Love Or Your Money Back by Suzy K Quinn

 

Synopsis

Is marriage about love or marketing?

Kat is 34, single and running out of time – she wants to get married before she turns 35, but her fiancé just ditched her for a 21-year-old life coach.

Freddy is a ruthless marketing guru who thinks love is just transactional. He’ll use his marketing genius to make Kat the most sought-after woman in London, if she lets him rebrand her struggling company.

With her 35th birthday looming and her love life a disaster, Kat agrees to become Project Marriage.

Can a rebrand king sell happily ever after? Or is love something even the best marketer can't package and promote?

A smart, funny romantic comedy for fans of Emile Henry (Funny Story), Lucy Score and Ali Hazelwood.

My Review

Welcome to my spot on the blog tour for Love Or Your Money Back by Suzy K Quinn. I don't read a lot of romance, so to entice me, the synopsis of a book has to be great, and that's exactly what happened with this book. 

It's obvious from the beginning where the story is going to end, but with most romance novels, it's the journey that we're really interested in. This struck me as a version of My Fair Lady/Pretty Woman. Kat Friedman runs her own publishing company. Dealing with a chronic illness and a bunch of employees who are hopeless means that Kat doesn't have a lot of time for herself. In steps Freddy Stark, a marketing guru who has just bought half the company. Sparks immediately start flying between the pair, but not in a good way.

Kat is a sympathetic character, and Freddy is brash and self-centred. As they skirt around each other, we learn that Kat is desperate to be married by the age of 35, and considering she's now 34, that doesn't leave much time. When this is combined with the fact that her hopeless boyfriend of fifteen years has recently dumped her and is now marrying a twenty-one-year-old, you can understand Kat's frustration. Freddy claims everything is about the right marketing - packaging, placement and promotion - and offers to help Kat in her quest in exchange for more control in the company.

As Freddy carefully packages and promotes his new "product", my opinion of him quickly changed; he's respectful, considerate, generous, emotionally intelligent and supportive. Freddy does his job so well that Kat is eventually fending off suitors. At this point, I found Kat to be too desperate and lacking in self-esteem, which is a complete contrast to the fiery, intelligent and resilient business woman whose company wins awards.

Freddy states that "A marketer's job is to see value where no one else does", and it doesn't take long for him to spot the true value of Kat, but what will he do? Does he throw his hat in the ring, or does he leave Kat to decide between her suitors? There's also Kat's hopeless ex-boyfriend, her first love, who continues to hang around like a bad smell. 

Love Or Your Money Back by Suzy K Quinn is available now in ebook format. My thanks to Suzy K Quinn and Rachel's Random Resources for a review copy.

Purchase Links

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Your-Money-Back-funniest-ebook/dp/B0FDBMMZQQ

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Your-Money-Back-funniest-ebook/dp/B0FDBMMZQQ

Author Details

Suzy K Quinn writes romantic comedy / rom com books / cozy mystery and has sold over 1 million books worldwide. She is a bestseller in the UK, US and Germany and has plans for total world domination with more feel-good books (bestsellers, obviously) in the near future.

Suzy lives in Wivenhoe, Essex, with her husband Demi and two daughters. She is a twin, an incompetent parent of two and now fully decaffeinated. Her twin sister, Cate Quinn, is also a bestseller author. When she's not writing, she is reading rom coms and cozy mysteries.

Suzy loves her readers and is ALWAYS happy to chat on social media - she's @suzykquinn on all the socials. You can also get a free book at her website:

www.suzykquinn.com